Total 3 job vacancies by Bonneville Power Administration

As a Public Utilities Specialist, you will:

• Provide short and long-range planning for building a research agenda that will identify technologies that align with the overall BPA strategy to delivery safe and reliable power.
• Provide technical leadership, direction and guidance for all technical and procedural aspects of establishing a research and development (R&D) portfolio.
• Lead and facilitate the collaborative team efforts of employees across business lines in establishing innovative goals and planning future operations strategies.
• Perform a full range of project management activities to include determining appropriate products/services with stakeholders to define project scope, requirements, and deliverables.
• Develop technology transfer plans to improve the likelihood of successful research application.
• Promote, deliver, and aggregate change so that research results will be successfully applied.

As a Public Utilities Specialist, you will:

• Provide short and long-range planning for building a research agenda that will identify technologies that align with the overall BPA strategy to delivery safe and reliable power.
• Provide technical leadership, direction and guidance for all technical and procedural aspects of establishing a research and development (R&D) portfolio.
• Lead and facilitate the collaborative team efforts of employees across business lines in establishing innovative goals and planning future operations strategies.
• Perform a full range of project management activities to include determining appropriate products/services with stakeholders to define project scope, requirements, and deliverables.
• Develop technology transfer plans to improve the likelihood of successful research application.
• Promote, deliver, and aggregate change so that research results will be successfully applied.

As a Student Trainee (Electrical Engineering), you will:

• Perform a variety of tests in accordance with established methods. Adjusts and operates test equipment of proven reliability. Applies standardized test procedures. Records instrument readings. Determines whether the test data fall within normal limits. Determines the apparent causes of deviations in the test data resulting from equipment malfunctions, observational errors, and other causes.
• Analyze and present data in accordance with established methods. Extracts data from a variety of prescribed but non-standardized sources. Recognizes errors which are readily apparent (e.g., misplaced decimal points and reversal of algebraic sign) but which require a limited knowledge of the subject matter. Processes the data according to well-defined methods and designated formulas using elementary algebra and geometry in addition to arithmetic.
• Assemble, install, and maintain instruments and equipment.
• Participate with engineers and other professionals in meetings relating to the review of engineering elements of assigned projects.
• Accompany engineers and other professionals on field inspections of in-process and completed work.